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openSUSE Security Update : mercurial (mercurial-75)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40065

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of mercurial improves the input validation. Prior to this patch it was possible to touch files as root. (CVE-2008-2942)

Solution

Update the affected mercurial package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404959

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40065

File Name: suse_11_0_mercurial-080704.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 7/4/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2942

CWE: 22